Mr. Conan Doyle and Madame de Montespan
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Mr. Conan Doyle and Madame de Montespan is an article published in The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle on 24 june 1893.
Mr. Conan Doyle and Madame de Montespan
(To the Editor of the Weekly Chronicle.)
Dear Sir, — I assure you that the writer of "Notes on Books" (in the "Weekly Chronicle" of June 10) is quite mistaken. In spite of the "Literary World," Madame de Montespan is "not" executed in my novel, and Louis XIV. has nothing to do with the incident from which he quotes. I explain in the preface the only liberty I take with history, which is a very trivial one. — I am, &c.,
- A. CONAN DOYLE.
- Tennison Road, South Norwood, June 14, 1893.
